bract, 1'75 cm. across; seeds dark-blue, 6 mm. across, irregularly pisiEorm; aril
email, wliite, laciniate. Eah in Book. f . Flor, Brit. Ind. vi. 248 (1892).
EASTERN HiitALiYAt Sikkim, 2,500—4,500 f t . ; Sooker, Clarke, Kinn, Prain.
This species is the type of § PUuranthesis Benth., which is characterised by
having the flower-spikes lateral on the leafy stem. As no figure of this section has
been published, the present opportunity is taken of reproducing an original drawing
of the ouly species, made from a living plant in 1874.
PLATE 88.—Zingiber Clarkei King. 1, rhizome and base of stem; 2, top o£ leafy stem; 3, 4,
S, &. 6, main and secondary braots and flowers, of one group; 7, singlo flower; 8, corolla segments;
9, lip; 10, anther; 11, ovary,-with style and stigma; 12, fruitiug spike; 13, single fruit; 14, capsula
cut transversely; 15, seeds.
a. K.
PLATE 89.
90. PANCRATTOJI LOSGIFLOSUM Roxb. Sort. Beag. 23 (1814).
natural order Amaryllidaceie.
A bulbous horb'; halb globose, 3—5 cm. in diam., neck cylindric, 1 cm. wide,
3—4 cm, long; leaves narrowly lanceolate, 20—33 cm. long, 1—3'5 cm. wide; soape
shorter than leaves or perianth-tube, compressed, 1-fld, 8 cm. long; spathe solitary,
acuminate, 4 cm. long; perianth with greenish tube, 12—14 cm. long, C—7 mm. wide
throat obconic, lobes lanceolate, white, 5—6-5 cm. long; sia?»i«aZ-cup 3—3-5 cm.
deep, 2*5—3 cm. wide, white, with large, 3-fid teeth 1—1'25 cm. long, between the
pale-gi-een filaments l-2o—1-5 cm. long; anthers 1—1-25 cm. long, yellow. Roxb,
J*lor. lad. ii. 130 (1333); Kanth. Enum. v. 663 ('1850); Eerh. AmrijUid. 203, t.
42, f. 2? (1837); Bik. Emib. Aniaryll. 119 (1838); Rojk. f . Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 28c)
t l d 9 2 ) .
MALAYAS ARCHIPELAGO: Moluccas, C. Smi'.h, file Roxburgh. INDIA; N.-W. Provinces,
at Luckuow, Rose I Oadh, Kheri; Rose! C. India, Raipur; J. Marlin! Deccan, RoMsr.
Tills interesting plant had long been lost to the Calcutta garden when in 18S8
Mr. Bose, then Postmaster-General for Oadh, sent a number of bulbs from the compound
of his residence at Lucknow. His house is believed to have been that occupied by
t h e well-known Gen. C. Martin while in the sarrice of the Nawab of Oudb. As Gen.
"Martin communicated rather freely wiih Dr. Roxburgh, our first impression was that
the plants sent by Mr. Rose might be descondants of some presented by Dr. Roxburgh
to Gen. Martin. Our plate, which is drawn from life, from one of the plants
received from Lucknow, shows that the Lucknow plant agrees in every respect with
t h e Moluccas plant as figured by Roxburgli, Icon. Ined. vii. 9 (serial No. 1959), except
that the Moluccas plant is slightly larger hi all its parts. Mr. Rose, to whom
Ihis opinion was communicated, was able a year later to show that, though a possible
one, ours was not a necessary explanation of the existence of the plant in a Lucknow
campound. He communicated other plants of the same species, undoubtedly wild,
obtained by himself while on tour in Oudh.
Since then Mr. J. Martin, of the Indian Forest Dept., has kindly sent living
plants from the district of R.ilpar in C. India, and Sic Joseph Hooker records, in
th» K.™ of B,itkh India vi. S86, the esWen™ of .peeimen, from the Deccan
collected by Eottler. Apparently no one ha, ,ent it from the Malay Archipelago
since Mr. C. Smith originally gave it to Dr. Eoxburgh.
The plant is well worthy of more attention horticulturally than it has hitherto
" " ' T h e r e is something unsatisfactory regarding the citations nnder this species.
Herbert, who had seen specimens of this name in the Banksian H e r b a n u m - a p p a r e n t ly
original Boiburghian ones from the Molnccas-has giTen a figure i.A«,.r,n«i. t i J,
f 2) wnich agree, well with the plant originally figured by Roxburgh as to leaf,
spathe, length of tube and form of staminal cup, but differs very markedly in not
shewing the large 2-fid interstaminal teeth on the margin of the cup. Sir J. D.
Hooker has suggested that Herbert's plant may rather be P. Uprtim Koib. than P.
lomifinm, hut has cited it under both species. It is on the whole more probable that
Herbert's drawing is intended for Roxburgh's P. hngiprum and tnat a mistake has
been made as regards the month of the staminal tube. Hooker has without question
referred P. cambagenae Herb, to P. hngijlorum but as regards Ibis citation there is
the same difficulty in connection with the mouth of the staminal tube, with the
further difflculty that the leaves of F. camhaimte are obtuse. We have therefore
omitted the citation P. eambaymse Herb, altogether, and only cite the P . hngijlirnim
of Herbert as doubtfully referable here.
PiiTB 89._Paiioi«ti«iii longfflonim JioiS. 1, plant; S, Sower; 3, portion of peri.nlh-tulo; 4,
tramvono «eotion of poiianth-tuli.; 6, oyaij, 1» vortical .oolioii, witli part of p«ti.nlli-tab. and
Btyle; 6, transvorse aeotion of ovary; 7, yoimg fruit,—fl« of natural ¡ixe, and all irom a living
plant roooived from Luoknow and grown in thi Eoyal Bolanio ernden, Caloolta.
Q. E . ; D. P.
97. CETPTOCOEVNB CEDnoASlANA Praia in Journ. Ab. iSoc. Benff. Ixii. 2. 174 (1900).
Natural order Aroideie.
An aquatic herb, with tuberous, stoloniferous rootstock; linear-lanceolate, 12—20
cm. long, -75—1 cm. wide, rather abruptly acute, lower fourth to third sheathing j
midrib distinct; Mowen on very short scapes; tube of spathe narrow, 8 cm. iong,
limb shorter than tnbe, 3-25 cm. long, lanceolate-acuminate, not twisted, purplish and
with irregular but very distinct transverse folds, 2-5 mm. apart, crossing the whole
of the inner surface.
UPPEK BDRMI: Kachin Hills, by the Kejn River, near Sima; Prain's CoHeetar I
This very distinct species is in habit a small edition of 0. oiliata; it thus does
not closely resemble any other Indian species. The limb of the spathe is however
longer and narrower in proportion to the tnbe and the tube is not fimbriate as in C.
eiliata. It has, moreover, many transverse rugae as in C. spiralii Fisch.; C. tpirali,,
however, has very different leaves and a spathe with a twisted limb, this limb being
longer than the tube.
ANS. EOY. Bor, QARO. CALO-, YOL. IX.